This was a real team effort thanks go to: Nineveh Trust for funding our work, Robert Rook and Paul Temple for provide such excellent farm visits, Sue Brummitt for bringing such well behaved and inquisitive children, Graham Ward at Stockbridge Technology Centre Research Foundation for providing support and guidance.

Bringing in the harvest, crops, livestock, garden and eat well plate.…

The harvesting of crops – shows farmers harvesting various crops such as cereals, potatoes peas. Also shows how a combine harvester threshes the corn in one process

The Harvesting of grass – Shows livestock harvesting grass to make milk for their offspring. Shows lambs being weighed to see if they are heavy enough for sending to market.

Harvesting our garden – What has been harvested in our garden over the summer.

How will you teach the ‘Eat Well Plate’ harvest now that pupils must know how food is grown, reared, caught and processed. Well our Food Stories and Teach VLE can help – put food production in the curriculum.

The Eat Well Plate Harvest

NATIONAL CURRICULUM SUBJECTS LINKS.

Citizenship KS 1 + 2

E.g. Shows how farmers look after animals as they give birth, and how the young must and new mothers must be looked after very carefully using both experience and new enthusiasm

Relevant QCA Schemes of Work

Unit 3 Animals and Us

Design and Technology KS 1 + 2

Looks how farmers use modern technology to grow crops and provide fresh 5-a-day produce
Relevant QCA Schemes of Work

Unit 1c Eat More Fruit and Vegetables

Science KS 1 + 2

The videos have lots of science links to the units listed below for example:

Shows the start of plants life cycles and what parts of a plant we use and harvest. Looks at how we can help bees so important to many of the plant food crops we rely on

Some of machinery could be used to discuss pushes and pulls.

Relevant QCA Schemes of Work

Unit 1B. Growing plants.

Unit 1E Pushes and Pulls.

Unit 2A Health and Grow.

Unit 2B Plants and Animals.

Unit 3B. Helping plants grow well.

Unit 4B Habitats.

Unit 5B. Life cycles.

Unit 6A Interdependence and adaptation.

These are just the links we thought of – please let us know if you make any more!

ECO SCHOOL TOPIC LINKS

With apologies if we are ‘teaching grandma to suck eggs’ here are some of our thoughts on how our videos link to the Eco School Topics.

Showing pupils just which of their food products are grown in this country will give them important background knowledge when discussing transport, energy and global perspective of food production and the healthy living choices they make when they go to the shops.

Energy

Growing food and the associated energy costs of buying home grown food or imported food

Water

Use of water to grow plants

Biodiversity

How growing a bee larder can help school, garden and local biodiversity

School grounds

How the simple act of planting some wild flowers can help with the design and creation of new features in your school grounds

Healthy living

How growing your own produce can promote healthy living by promoting a healthy diet and also promoting exercise in the act of growing that produce. The improvement of school ground can also aid mental well being.

Transport

Reduce transport costs of food by growing your own local produce.

Litter

When carrying out gardening tasks introduce children to tidy habits – pick up all packaging and dispose of ‘thoughtfully’ – see waste

When outside be it school, garden or countryside “Take only photos Leave only footprints!”

Waste

Explain that gardening and farming is and always has been synonymous with recycling. Re-use seed trays, compost is made from last years ‘recycled’ plants. Think twice abut where to put litter – bin or recycle?

Global citizenship

Explain how even the little things we do – where how food comes from, how much we recycle, our biodiversity, can affect the whole world be it good or bad!